Alberto Martín

@albertomartin.bsky.social

Associate professor at University of Granada (Spain), Dept #InformationScience & #LibraryScience. Interested in #bibliometrics, #scholarlycommunication, #openscience.

⚠️ After being delisted from WoS and Scopus, and after the editor in chief announced its end, the journal Profesional de la Información is offline. Its DOIs no longer resolve and articles are inaccessible, except for repository copies. A serious preservation issue affecting its authors and readers.

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A proposal for journals to adopt externally audited quality management systems (e.g. ISO 9001), aiming to improve the lack of transparency, effectiveness, and potential conflicts of interest in current journal evaluation bodies. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer

Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.

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It’s been a few months since I was last able to export full cited-reference lists from Scopus. This is quite inconvenient for following up on the issue of stealth journal takeovers, which remains invisible in other data sources 🤷‍♂️

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Coverage of this journal was paused in Web of Science about a year ago. Crossref shows 8,475 DOIs minted in 2024 and only 2,748 in 2025, just 32% of the previous year. Another reminder that Impact Factors, rather than serving specific research communities, are driving publication choices.

Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 8mo ago

Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year. english.elpais.com/science-tech...

La caída de una megarrevista científica expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia. Una de las cabeceras que más estudios publican en el mundo ha sido expulsada del sistema por irregularidades. Su editorial, Elsevier, gana 1.300 millones al año: elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

La caída de una megarrevista científica expone el pelotazo de las editoriales en la ciencia

Una de las cabeceras que más estudios publican en el mundo, expulsada del sistema por irregularidades. Su editorial, Elsevier, supera los 1.300 millones de euros de beneficios al año

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Despite Scopus deciding to discontinue coverage for most of the journals in our journal snatchers study, some of them still remain covered, including Vascular and Endovascular Review. Coincidentally, this journal indexed 400 new studies in Scopus in the last week alone, some clearly out of scope:

Title of article published in journal Vascular & Endovascular Review: Empowering Voices: Gender Realities and Female Resilience in Sucha Murty's Literary Narratives

Google Scholar gets into "AI powered" space Assuming this can use all the full-text they have indexed this might be a game changer. The timing of this release maybe suggests Gemini 3 is being used? scholar.googleblog.com/2025/11/scho... . Apparently some hit a waitlist, I have access though (1)

Scholar Labs: An AI Powered Scholar Search

Research questions are often detailed. Answering them can require looking at a topic from multiple angles. Today, we are introducing Scholar...

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Este mes se ha sabido que otra revista española, la Revista Electrónica de Ciencia Penal y Criminología, con una trayectoria de 26 años bajo la dirección de un profesor de Derecho Penal de la Universidad de Granada, también fue transferida a Oxbridge Publishing House. doi.org/10.21428/cb6...

Yet another problem for scholarly communication in criminology: The case of a Spanish journal turned into a paper mill

Founded in 1999, RECPC became one of the most influential Spanish-language journals in criminal law and criminology. After a 2024 change of management, articles of dubious authorship and quality linke...

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Hoy una periodista científica ha escrito para preguntarnos si se podía fiar de un artículo publicado en una de las revistas vendidas a Oxbridge/OAText. Al mirarlo, comprobamos que se había publicado antes de la venta. El daño reputacional puede afectar retroactivamente.

El próximo 20 de octubre hablaremos con nuestros colegas del departamento de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad de la Universidad de Sevilla, entre otras cosas, sobre venta de revistas, y revistas vendidas

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